Status of Farmers Home Administration Efforts to Install Office Automation

摘要

The briefing report presents the results of Phase 1 of our review covering three aspects of the Farmers Home Administration's (FmHA) automation of its field offices. These were (1) the adequacy of FmHA's prototype test of computers in field offices; (2) the appropriateness, conditions, and terms of the Request for Proposals (RFP) and the resulting contract to acquire computers and associated software for the Department of Agriculture's (USDA) field offices; and (3) the extent to which the USDA's Kansas City Computer Center (KCCC) can handle the workload expected from computers operating in thousands of field offices.